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Line 31: − − Existing laws requiring students to receive controversial vaccines are based on a eugenics-era decision granting the State the power to forcibly vaccinate residents.<ref>Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).</ref> That decision, in fact, was the cited precedent for Justice Holmes' offensive "imbeciles" holding quoted above.
→Eugenics in America: looked up this cite too; it references Lochner, not the "imbecile" decision (Buck). Lochner is very different, and only the dissent (a very egalitarian tract) is cited!!
Holmes once wrote favorably in a letter to a future Supreme Court Justice about "restricting propagation by the undesirables and putting to death infants that didn't pass the examination."<ref>9/3/21 Letter to Felix Frankfurther. For a detailed criticism of Justice Holmes' judicial Darwinism, see Professor Albert W. Alschuler's Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (Univ. of Chicago Press 2000).</ref>
Holmes once wrote favorably in a letter to a future Supreme Court Justice about "restricting propagation by the undesirables and putting to death infants that didn't pass the examination."<ref>9/3/21 Letter to Felix Frankfurther. For a detailed criticism of Justice Holmes' judicial Darwinism, see Professor Albert W. Alschuler's Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (Univ. of Chicago Press 2000).</ref>
== Eugenics in Europe ==
== Eugenics in Europe ==